I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system…

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

— Indira Gandhi

“In all their activities Christians are “filled with joy uttering and doing the precepts of the Lord,” teaching their children never to lose hold…

— Alan Kreider

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day…

— St. Jerome

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power,…

— Vaclav Havel

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

— George Orwell

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death…

— Hannah Arendt

“Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did not deliver Himself, we must see…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“It all fit. The love of power, the focus on Russia to the exclusion of the rest of the world—with an exception made perhaps…

— Masha Gessen

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes…

— George Orwell

“Does human nature undergo a true change in the cauldron of totalitarian violence? Does man lose his innate yearning for freedom? The fate of…

— Vasily Grossman

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian…

— Noam Chomsky

“For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs…

— Herbert Marcuse

“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically…

— Louis Jolyon West

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and…

— Steven Pinker